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Rachel Carson’s Quiet and Powerful Leadership

HBR On Leadership

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Rachel Carson's Resilience in Crisis

In 1962, the serialized portions of the book appear in The New Yorker. By 1964, congressional subcommittees will have decided that DDT Hepticle and other organic synthetic pesticides will be outlawed. That ban will become almost global over the next 15 years. It creates a huge controversy. She was threatened with scores of lawsuits but not one ever went anywhere. We all have the potential to find that resilience within ourselves and to develop it.

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